Episode 386  The Taylor Swift Episode

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Carina recently watch the Eras Tour Concert Movie not once but twice! She talks about some the amazing things Taylor Swift has done in her young life and career and how we can follow some of those amazing action steps as designers.

Episode 386 The Taylor Swift Episode

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today!

https://www.designsuitecourses.com/designprofitprosper

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 385 Reinvention of the Make and Design Podcast

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Carina has made some changes to the podcast and she hopes you love them! Learn more about how she has reinvented the podcast on her birthday!

Episode 385 Reinvention of the Make and Design Podcast

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today!

https://www.designsuitecourses.com/designprofitprosper

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About Carina Gardner:

Carina Gardner is a fabric designer, paper designer, and design educator who is passionate about helping other designers fulfill their creative dreams by teaching them her strategies for making money as a designer. She has a Ph.D. in Design and taught design at the University of Minnesota before starting Carina Gardner, Inc.

Carina Gardner, Inc design brand has been featured in dish ware, holiday decor, sewing patterns, and more. Her exclusive Design Suite Program helps creatives make money designing as they learn to design. Her programs include Illustrator and Photoshop training, surface pattern design, paper design, Silhouette & Cricut file design, and running a design business. She started the Make and Design Podcast so that she could share inspiration, stories, and experiences about design and life with crafters and designers.

Find out more at https://www.carinagardner.com
Watch this episode as a video at https://www.makeanddesign.com/

Episode 384 Deliberately Chaotic

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Carina talks about how you can still plan but have spontaneity in your artwork. She calls this being deliberately chaotic. Put time on your calendar to design but then do the work!

Carina is working in Procreate in this episode.

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

, https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 383 Smart Designers Use the Tools

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Carina talks about design tools and how they have changed over the last 40 years. What was unacceptable before is now acceptable. With this past in mind, designers should think smart as they choose their tools for the future.

Want to see Carina watercolor her way through this episode? Be sure to check it out!

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 382  Mitigating the Downfalls of Procreate (While I Use Procreate)

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Carina talks about how Procreate can be a good tool if you use it effectively. While she talks about some of the issues with Procreate, she shows how she uses layers to make it easier for her to vectorize her artwork later.

Watch the YouTube channel to see her working in Procreate throughout this episode:

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 381 How To Develop A Keen Sense of Self

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Carina challenges you to work through the activity with her in today’s youtube/podcast episode. In order to get a keen sense of self we need to ask ourselves the following questions:


What do we like?

What do we not like?

Is this something future (name) would approve of?

And then Carina walks you through your daily activities and how they are the bridge for present you and future you.

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 380 Creating Your Own Designer Textures with Watercolor

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Carina shows you how she uses watercolor to create a digital library that can be used as textures in her art work. Learn how she created these watercolors and then uses them digitally in today’s episode.

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 379  Action Taker Versus Thinker

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What does it mean to be an Action Taker vs. a Thinker? Which of these do you believe you are? Learn more in today’s episode why Carina values one more than the other.

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 378 One of the UnIntended Consequences of Choosing To Be A Designer

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Carina talks about the wonderful unintended consequences of going after her dreams even as a young mom. She talks about her children and their creative dreams and how big dreams lead to big results.

Want to see Carina watercolor her way through this episode? Be sure to check it out at https://youtu.be/PGExKaKKdt0

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper

Episode 377 Casts with Carina’s Husband Josh Gardner

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Today’s guest is Carina’s husband Josh! Josh talks about a recent experience he had fishing in Alaska and the lessons he learned. And yes! They relate it back to designing! You don’t want to miss this fun episode.

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Love to create, design and craft? Have you always wanted to know how to turn your passions into profit? Carina’s new book – Design Profit & Prosper will lead you down the path of making your dreams a reality. Get your copy today! 

https://www.carinagardnercourses.com/designprofitprosper